Tiny Ghost Studios

What Tiny Ghost Studios does

Tiny Ghost Studios is a founder-led creative studio founded in September 2023 that builds AI-powered interactive storytelling tools and provides branded animation services. The company's core product is LumaTale, an interactive storytelling platform featuring GHOSTIEs — Generative Helpers for Orchestrating Storytelling Through Immersive Experiences — which are AI-powered virtual assistants with personality-rich characters that guide users through character creation, environment design, and interactive narrative moments. The studio also operates an artist-led, AI-powered animation pipeline that delivers premium 3D branded content for companies, positioning itself as a creative "Co-Pilot" for brands seeking animation output without in-house production headcount.

The company serves two primary customer segments: brands and companies seeking nimble creative partners for branded animation and storytelling, and authors/visual storytellers who lack coding skills but want to produce interactive stories. Revenue derives from project-based professional services for branded content; the LumaTale platform monetization model is not yet disclosed, and a crowdfunding launch party is scheduled for June 18, 2025. Distribution runs through direct partnership inquiries, a Discord community launched in April 2025, monthly newsletters, and active participation in industry events including WebSummit, Collision, Women in Tech Regatta Vancouver, Elevate Festival, and Misfit Ventures. The LumaTale pre-alpha prototype was released in May 2025 as the platform's first public milestone.

The team is intentionally lean: three co-founders — Mayumi Rollings (CEO, operations and finance), Luke Minaker (Chief Amazement Officer, creator of the award-winning interactive story series Weirdwood Manor, 20+ years in games/TV/film), and Zack Gans (Chief Strategy Officer, MBA from Rotman, BFA in Film Production from Ryerson) — plus one web developer. The company is privately held with no disclosed institutional funding, no named customers, no patents, and no disclosed revenue. Operational geography appears centered on Vancouver, Canada based on event participation, though formal entity and office information is not disclosed.

Name

Tiny Ghost Studios

Legal name

Tiny Ghost Studios

Website

https://tinyghoststudios.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Tiny Ghost Studios is a Vancouver-area founder-led studio that builds LumaTale, an AI-powered interactive storytelling platform with GHOSTIE creation assistants, and provides branded 3D animation services to companies and authors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Interactive Storytelling Platform

NAICS

Graphic Design Services (541430), Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers (711510)

SIC

Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812), Services-Advertising Agencies (7311)

akta.pro primary industry

Narrative/Adventure & RPG Game Studios (MPAFAAAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

3D Character Animation (MPAHACAB), 3D Product/Explainer Animation (MPAHACAD), Outsourced Art/Audio Production Services (2D/3D, Animation, VFX, Audio/VO) (MPAFAKAM)

Keywords

• Interactive storytelling
• AI animation
• Branded content
• Creative workshops
• 3D animation

Headquarters

HQ city

Vancouver

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Branded Content and Animation Services: The company creates branded universes and studio-quality animation for brands seeking to level up their storytelling. They act as an in-house creative team for brands without the headcount overhead.
2. LumaTale Platform: Interactive storytelling platform targeting the $31 billion interactive story market, enabling authors who don't code to create and monetize interactive stories. Revenue model for the platform not explicitly disclosed.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Tiny Ghost Studios builds LumaTale, an AI-powered interactive storytelling platform with GHOSTIE AI helpers, and produces branded 3D animation content for businesses. The studio also offers creative workshops for individuals and small teams seeking to develop storytelling and animation skills.

Product overview

Tiny Ghost Studios offers a unified platform for interactive storytelling centered around LumaTale, an AI-powered creative suite that enables users to create branded universes with studio-quality 3D animation. The platform integrates GHOSTIEs (AI-powered creation assistants) to guide users through character design, environment building, and interactive storytelling. The company also provides educational workshops for creative professionals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• LumaTale: An interactive storytelling platform and product line featuring GHOSTIEs (Generative Helpers for Orchestrating Storytelling Through Immersive Experiences) that guide users through character creation and interactive story experiences.

Products and services

• LumaTale
• Workshops
• Branded Animation Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Premium 3D animation delivered in a fraction of traditional time and cost

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature3 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Wonder Dynamics: Wonder Dynamics (now part of Autodesk) built AI tools for animating and integrating CG characters into live-action scenes. Closely comparable to TGS's AI-powered 3D animation pipeline on the production-services and creator-tooling side.
• Plotagon: Plotagon enables users to create animated stories with characters and dialogue via a consumer app. Comparable to LumaTale as a consumer-facing animated-storytelling creation tool, though with a different visual style.
• Fable (The Simulation / Showtime): Fable is building AI-driven interactive and narrative entertainment experiences, including AI-generated characters and stories. Comparable to TGS on the AI + interactive narrative intersection and the creator-tool ambition.
• Create Studios (Toonly / Voomly): Create Studios (Toonomy/Voomly) provides consumer and SMB tools to produce animated videos for marketing and branded content. Comparable to TGS on the democratized branded animation use case, though positioned more toward 2D explainer content than 3D.

Broad incumbents

• Runway: Runway provides AI video and image generation tools widely used by creators and brands. Comparable as a competing AI creative pipeline that could serve both TGS's branded-content clients and the LumaTale creator base.
• Telltale Games: Telltale pioneered narrative adventure games with cinematic storytelling and branching dialogue. Comparable to LumaTale on the interactive narrative-game category, though Telltale is a much larger incumbent focused on licensed IP rather than a creator platform.
• Synthesia: Synthesia offers AI-generated video avatars and branded video production at scale. Comparable to TGS on the AI-powered branded content/services side, though Synthesia targets enterprise video rather than 3D animated storytelling.

Direct peers

• Episode (Pocket Gems): Episode is a mobile platform that lets writers create and publish interactive visual stories consumed by a large user base. Directly comparable to LumaTale's goal of enabling non-coders to author interactive narrative content for a consumer audience.
• Inkle Studios: Inkle is a narrative-focused game studio known for interactive fiction titles such as 80 Days and Heaven's Vault, with a proprietary scripting system (ink) for branching narratives. Highly comparable to LumaTale's interactive-story authoring mission and target audience of story-led creators.
• Choices: Stories You Play (Pixelberry Studios): Choices is a leading mobile interactive-story platform with millions of players and a strong author/creator supply chain. Comparable to LumaTale on both the consumer-facing interactive-story side and the creator-tools narrative.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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